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Krishna Sharma

Krishna

Krishna Sharma is an audience engagement editor for the Baltimore Banner. He helps create and curate content on all social media platforms, with a special focus on TikTok. He aspires to collaborate with the Baltimore community to share digital content that helps, informs and inspires community members. Have any questions about Baltimore? DM or email me! And I'll try to find out. Krishna previously managed social media for Kaiser Health News. Before that, he earned his MS in ecology by studying butterfly migration. He then pivoted into journalism through the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, for which he wrote environmental science stories for the Miami Herald. He has expertise in reporting on science, and is also a published photographer and poet.

Latest content by Krishna Sharma

Sylvia Jones, 102
Raisin Bran, stubbornness and love are secrets to a long life for these centenarians
Tiaras sparkled atop gray hair as five centenarians sat down to celebrate their birthdays together. Minnie Styles, Sylvia Jones, and Lois Herron — all 102 — along with Odessa Bass, 104, and Elaine Jones, 105, parked their wheelchairs next to each other and posed for a photo.
8 steal-worthy white elephant gifts in Baltimore
Need a unique and affordable white elephant gift? Here are eight options.
A fan that is nineteen feet in diameter pushes the wind through the tunnel at The Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel at University of Maryland.
A rare look inside UMD’s historic wind tunnel will blow you away
The Baltimore Banner photojournalist Kaitlin Newman and audience engagement editor Krishna Sharma were granted rare access to The Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel at the University of Maryland. See how much wind they could withstand.
Soaking the feathers of a peregrine falcon discourages it from trying to fly away.
When falcons fall in Baltimore, this man comes to their rescue
A peregrine falcon fell from its nest in downtown Baltimore. Turns out, there's a man - dedicated to helping these fallen avians. And a USFWS program.
This is Stephen Varges's second year of rescuing fallen herons. Unfortunately, sometimes he finds some that are already deceased.
Why are birds falling out of trees in Fells Point?
Residents keep finding and rescuing young herons in this small urban park.
Soccer Without Borders is an international nonprofit headquartered in Baltimore.
Former Soccer Without Borders coach pleads guilty in child sexual abuse case
The nonprofit works with vulnerable youths in Baltimore. Authorities have charged a former coach in the organization with sexually abusing one of the students.
A bird's eye view of a city street, lined with trees and cars, with a blue thermoplastic line squiggling across the road as part of an art installation.
Buried rivers flow underneath Baltimore. One artist wonders whether it’s time to dig them up.
Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.
8 places to shop for Baltimore gifts under $25
Looking for affordable gifts in Baltimore? These eight shops have everything you need.
Roger Davis examining a small restored section of the Plum Tree Branch near Dunloggin Middle School.
Chopping down trees to save the bay? The battle over a Howard County stream restoration
Critics worry that stream restorations are more about money and politics than the environment, with little accountability when it comes to results.
Three men wearing black t-shirts stand in front of the door to their Fells Point shop.
Gardening center or dispensary? Baltimore shop tests limits of cannabis law
A new Fells Point business is teaching people how to cultivate cannabis and selling plants. Is it legal? That answer isn’t so simple.
Illustration of a woman standing in front of rowhouses that look like books.
New to Baltimore? Check out these books.
Readers told us the best Baltimore books to read.
Photo collage showing Krishna Sharma’s face on a bright orange circle, next to Sam Barsky’s face on a bright blue circle, with neutral background showing Baltimore row houses.
Sweaters, Baltimore and social media fame: A chat with Sam Barsky
Here’s what viral knitter Sam Barsky has to say about Baltimore and his social media journey.
(From left: Photos by Stokely Baksh and Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltimore Banner and Scott Serio/Eclipse Sportswire/Cal Sport Media)
Test your memory with our weekly news quiz
Test your knowledge of this week's headlines by taking our news quiz.
Please share your favorite Baltimore books with us.
Tell us: What books should a Baltimore newcomer read?
Share you favorite Baltimore reads with us.
A cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) swimming underwater in an aquarium.
What’s up with the rays along the Inner Harbor?
Cownose rays return to Maryland every summer — even though the state used to have killing competitions for them.

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